Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-13024  

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in tcpdump's handling of IPv6 mobility in tcpdump <= 4.9.1. An attacker could craft a malicious pcap file or send specially crafted packets to the network that would cause tcpdump to crash while processing the packet data.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in tcpdump's handling of IPv6 mobility in tcpdump <= 4.9.1. An attacker could craft a malicious pcap file or send specially crafted packets to the network that would cause tcpdump to crash while processing the packet data.

AVG-361 tcpdump 4.9.1-1 4.9.2-1 Critical Fixed

13 Sep 2017 ASA-201709-5 AVG-361 tcpdump Critical multiple issues

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/2e1f6d9320afa83abc1ff716c7981fa504edadf2
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/7d3aba9f06899d0128ef46e8a2fa143c6fad8f62